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Re: three questions

At 08:32 AM 3/13/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello! I am new to this list and glad to have found others who like this
>method of gardening!
>
>I have a couple of questions:
>1) I just recently started a garden this year again after letting last
>year's go down the tubes due to neglect. I have one bed done (out of 4 plus
>some other space in the yard) and already the neighborhood cats have decided
>to make it their litterbox (must be the freshly turned soil?).
>
>How do you keep cats out of the beds?

Hello,

I would suggest planting around the outside of the bed a plant called
citronella.  To humans, it has a pleasant lemony smell but cats and dogs
can't stand it.  If you have other pests like rabbits or ground hogs or
prairie dogs,  marigolds do the same.  the citronella has the added function
of being a very nice mosquito repellent too.  If this isn't feasable or
doesn't work, you might try cayanne pepper; this will have to be reapplied
every time it rains or you water and I am unsure of the effects on a garden,
never having used it outside.

Francine
Highland Rose Ranch
Montrose, Colorado
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